From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 22:15:38 MDT
From: "Harvey Newstrom" <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>
>
> On Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at 09:41 pm, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>
> >> (Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>):
> >>
> >> I don't like gambling with my life,...
> >
> > "Gambling" and "life" are synonymous.
>
> And your point is....?
>
> Seriously, I don't know what this means. You cut off my sentence. I
> said, "I don't like gambling with my life, and prefer to get rid of such
> gambles wherever possible." Do you disagree with this statement? Do
> you think there is something wrong with trying to increase my survival
> odds to near certainty? Do you prefer living a life of risky
> excitement?
Living in the Northwest, I am amazed at how many people like to go mountain
climbing (a "high" for which I have no inclination, as I get dizzy even
*thinking* of heights). Many recreational sports seem to be unnecessarily
risky - and the inevitable rescue efforts dangerous and expensive.
Wonder how many people on this list engage in "risky excitement"-type of
sports or activities. Hmmm?
I know several people who refuse to fly (and their habit was well ingrained
before 9/11). They'll take the train, boat, auto - anything but fly. Isaac
Asimov hated flying - he only flew a couple of times in his life. Do any of
you have problems flying? Has 9/11 curbed your own flying at all (do you
tend to think twice now)?
Personally, I have no problem with flying, although have not had the
occasion to fly since before 9/11. I watched a PSA passenger jet crash in
San Diego on September 25, 1978 (it crashed into a residential neighborhood
a few blocks from my apartment), so a personal note of 9/11 for me was that
it rekindled the horror of that other plane crash vividly - on top of the
unimaginable unprecedentedness of 9/11 itself.
Olga
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